Cashiers are barred from interacting with customers until they have completed 40 hours of training. Hundreds of staffers are sent on trips around the U.S. and world to become experts in their products. The company has no mandatory retirement age and has never laid off workers. All profits are reinvested in the company or shared with employees.

The news isn’t entirely rapturous, with some rumblings on social media about increased traffic and limited space at the Landmark Center, where it’s supposed to open. Those questions aside, those of us who’ve remained Wegmans agnostic this long better prepare for the arrival of what appears to be some kind of religious movement.